Miscellaneous

Happy Birthday, Bill

Posted on April 21, 2009
On April 23, discover your inner Shakespeare. CNN suggests these websites for further inspiration: Talk Like Shakespeare and The Shakespeare Insults Generator.

A Small Texas Town, A Big Screen Film, and a Hard American Truth

Posted on April 17, 2009
NPR has this story about the truth behind the film American Violet, premiering this month. American Violet dramatizes an ill-conceived raid on some black residents of the town of Hearne, Texas (name changed in the movie), and the aftermath of the raid...

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Dies

Posted on April 16, 2009
Eve Sedgwick, the literary theorist, has died. Here is an article from the New York Times discussing her life and legacy.

Symposium In Honor of J. Allen Smith at Rutgers School of Law (Newark)

Posted on April 16, 2009
From Jessica Silbey:The Law & Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor a symposium celebrating the memory of J. Allen Smith, outstanding property professor and Law and Humanities visionary who created the Institute over 30 years ago. The event, hosted by Rutgers School of Law ? Newark in conjunction with its 100th birthday celebration, will begin with a welcome dinner and reception on Thursday, April 23rd and run through Saturday, April 25th...

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Marcus Garvey and Legal Narrative

Posted on April 09, 2009
Justin Hansford, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Jailing a Rainbow: Death by Narrative and the Marcus Garvey Case , in volume 2 of Georgetown Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives (2009). Here is the abstract.The relevance of narrative in the law continues to reemerge in legal scholarship...

Call For Papers

Posted on April 04, 2009
Call for Contributions Law, Language and Discourse Editors: Anne Wagner (Université du Littoral Côte d?Opale), Jixian Pang (Zhejiang University) & Le Cheng (City University of Hong Kong) - Publisher: Zhejiang University Press Submission guidelines and timelineExpression of interest should be addressed by e-mail both to valwagnerfr@yahoo...

Shakespeare's Historical Plays

Posted on April 02, 2009
Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law, has published "Power Politics and the Rule of Law: Shakespeare's First Historical Tetralogy and Law's Foundations," at 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 139-168 (2009). Here is the abstract...

Call For Participation

Posted on April 01, 2009
Global Harmony and the Rule of Law24th IVR World CongressSpecial Workshop no. 28:Law and LiteratureCoordinator:Enrico PattaroHonorary President of ISLL ? Italian Society for Law and LiteratureE-mail: cirsfid.lawandliterature@unibo.itIn collaboration with:Carla Faralli, ISLL PresidentM...

How To Get Published--Or Not

Posted on April 01, 2009
Via Electratig, and then on little cat feet to Legal History Blog, I came across this gem: Brian Morton's L'Isle de Gilligan. Mr. Morton was then Dissent's book review editor, and the piece appeared in Dissent in 1990 with the title "How Not to Write for Dissent...

Conference Of Interest At Cardozo

Posted on April 01, 2009
Cardozo Law School is hosting a program called "In Flagrante Depicto: A Program on Film In/On Trial." It runs May 7-8. PRAWFSBLAWG provides a link to the program here.

Television and Torture

Posted on March 27, 2009
Bev Clucas, University of Hull School of Law, has published "24 and Torture," in Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities (B. Clucas, G. Johnstone and T Ward eds.; Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2009). Here is the abstract. In this chapter, I explore and reflect on the underlying themes concerning torture and legitimate action in 24...

What's In a Name? Maybe a Judgeship

Posted on March 24, 2009
Bentley Coffey, Clemson University, and Patrick A. McLaughlin, George Mason University, Mercatus Center, have published, "From Lawyer to Judge: Advancement, Sex, and Name-Calling." Here is the abstract. This paper provides the first empirical test of the Portia Hypothesis: females with masculine monikers are more successful in legal careers...

Announcement of Faculty Development Initiative

Posted on March 24, 2009
From Ileana Porras, Brown UniversityInternational Affairs at Brown University is proud to announce the launch of an exciting new faculty development initiative, the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI). The objective of the program is to provide a platform for promising young faculty from the Global South and emerging economies to engage in a high level and sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in their fields, and to foster scholarly networks among young faculty, while providing them with an opportunity to develop their scholarship agendas...

Conference Announcement

Posted on March 23, 2009
Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the ConnectionsFemale Fan Culture and Intellectual PropertyAmerican University Washington College of Law?s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law in collaboration with American University's Center for Social Media and The Organization for Transformative Works...

New Book On Human Rights, the Novel, and International Law From Fordham University Press

Posted on March 17, 2009
Fordham University Press announces the publication of the 2008 ACLA René Wellek Prize Winner Joseph R. Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (2008).Here are some reviews. "Human Rights, Inc. is a book of huge erudition that effortlessly and elegantly combines history, literary theory and political philosophy...

Law and Language

Posted on March 17, 2009
Peter Tiersma, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, has published What is Language and Law? And Does Anyone Care? in Law and Language: Theory and Society (Frances Olsen, Alexander Lorz & Dieter Stein, eds.; 2008). Here is the abstract.There has been growing attention paid recently to the interdisciplinary study of language and law...

Call For Papers

Posted on March 17, 2009
From Nick Federico, Deans Fellow to Professor Anthony Varona, Professor of Law at the American University, Washington College of LawCALL FOR PAPERS & PANELSOUTSIDERS INSIDE: CRITICAL OUTSIDER THEORY AND PRAXISIN THE POLICYMAKING OF THE NEW AMERICAN REGIMEAmerican University - Washington College of LawWashington, D...

Shakespeare and Political Legitimacy

Posted on March 12, 2009
Eric Heinze, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law, has published "Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond," in volume 20 of Law and Critique (2009). Here is the abstract. The Seventeenth Century places Western political thought on a path increasingly concerned with ascertaining the legitimacy of a determinate individual, parliamentary or popular sovereign...

White House Law

Posted on March 12, 2009
Keith A. Rowley, UNLV Law School, has published "In There a Lawyer in the (White) House?: Portraying Lawyers on The West Wing," in Lawyers in Your Living Room!: Law on Television (Michael Asimow ed.; ABA, 2009). Here is the abstract. Ever since "L.A. Law" burst triumphantly onto the small screen in 1986 and the "Law & Order" franchise was born four years later, shows featuring lawyers have become a staple of American prime time network television...

Carolyn Grose, William Mitchell

Posted on March 10, 2009
Carolyn Grose, William Mitchell College of Law, has published 'Once Upon a Time, in a Land Far, Far Away': Lawyers and Clients Telling Stories About Ethics (and Everything Else) , in volume 20 of the Hastings Women's Law Journal (2009). Here is the abstract...

Annual Reports: They're For Research Now

Posted on March 06, 2009
Gaetan Breton, University du Quebec (Montreal), has published "Semiotic Analysis of Storytelling in the Annual Report." Here is the abstract. This paper wants to explore the use of semiotics analysis to better understand the annual report. We start with the idea that the annual report is telling stories to the reader...

What Not To Bare

Posted on March 06, 2009
Erik Jensen of Case Western Reserve Law School makes the case for judicial sartorial minimalism. But what, I ask, does this say about judicial conservatism?Erik M. Jensen, CWRU Law School, "Under the Robes: A Judicial Right to Bare Arms (and Legs and...

Law and Art

Posted on March 05, 2009

Summer Study in Osnabrück

Posted on March 05, 2009

New Publication: Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts: Explorations in the Semiotics of Law

Posted on March 03, 2009

Montesquieu and the Supreme Court

Posted on March 02, 2009

Picket Fences

Posted on March 02, 2009

Law and Popular Culture

Posted on February 28, 2009

Affect and Effect: Theories of Law and Film

Posted on February 27, 2009

Authoring Opinions

Posted on February 26, 2009
Ryan Benjamin Witte, Columbia University Law School and Florida State University College of Law, has published "The Judge as an Author/The Author as a Judge." Here is the abstract. For Federal judges, a life-tenure also comes with a life-long publishing deal...

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